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L.A. County has already broken a voting record

Even before polling places open, Los Angeles County voters have already broken a record, with a 14% voter turnout in early ballots alone, said Los Angeles County Registrar-Record Dean Logan.

Between mail-in ballots and early in-person voting at the Registar’s Norwalk office more than 625,000 ballots have been cast for today’s historic election of the country’s first African-American president or its first female vice president. In Orange County, the early voter turn-out is even a larger, with a record-breaking 29% voter turnout before election day.